The U.S. Navy's Alaska-Class Battlecruiser Was a Failure

The Alaska-class battlecruisers, conceived by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s to counter foreign naval developments, became a case of strategic misalignment by the time they were completed in the late 1940s.

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